10uF Tantalum Capacitor

Description:
There are many types of caps out there - ceramic, electrolytic, and tantalum are some of the most common. Tantalum being the more expensive, they have better transient repsonse and lower ESR than eletrolytics or ceramics.

This 10uF EIA-A is a small, simple cap that we use constantly with our small 150mA v-regs. Many v-regs require a minimum of 4.7uF on the output - this cap works great.

Ceramics caps have no polarization. Electrolytics are polarized and have a negative marking. Tantalums are polarized but (just to screw with your head) have a positive marking. This one has a dark brown bar and a notched corner. This end of the cap needs to be connected to Vcc (or whatever).

This is a 16V cap which means it can be exposed to about 10V safely (I de-rate all caps by about 50%). Above that and you can run the risk of burning the cap and in extreme over-voltages, blowing the cap. Yes, I've seen a hefty 100uF blow it's top completely and hit a person in the head when it was exposed to ~15V (it was a 6V rated cap).

Documents:

Footprints:
SFE Footprint Library

FP Name: 1206 EIA-A

Manufacturer Info:
Part # : T491A106M016AS
EIA-A Package

Supplier Info:
Digikey part # : T491A106M016AS
Single Piece Price : $0.15

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